Faculty Resources

WHY OFFER A COURSE ON COURSERA?

Give a new population of students the opportunity to learn from you, your experience and the Penn perspective by reaching the broadest, global community of students interested in your topic.

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HOW TO LAUNCH A COURSE ON COURSERA

The Faculty Resources section is your centralized location to get all the information you will need to set up and launch a course on Coursera from conception of the course to delivering it successfully. The QUICK LINKS to the left may also be helpful in directing you to particular topics.

On this page you'll find information on:

Getting your course approved

Setting up your course

Delivering your course

Offering a course on Coursera happens in three steps:

THE 3-STEP PROCESS

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Please click here to go to the online template which has the instructions on how to submit your proposal to the committee for review. You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt and a response after the next committee meeting.

SUBMITTING YOUR MOOC RE-OFFERING PROPOSAL

If you would like to offer your course again, please click here to go to the online template for the re-offering proposal template for the committee to review.

SUBMITTING YOUR DIGITAL CONTENT PROPOSAL

Please click here to go to the online template for other digital content.

STEP 2: Setting Up Your Course

I. WHAT TO DO FIRST

II. HAVING YOUR COURSE ADDED INTO COURSERA

The Open Learning team will add your course into the system. Each instance of a course is called a "session" and a new session will also be set up at that time. Once this happens, you or your TA (with assistance from the Open Learning team) can get your course listed on the Coursera site.

III: LISTING YOUR COURSE

This is the first thing that will happen on Coursera, typically about 6 months prior to your desired live date. The course is usually listed with the date TBA while enrollments build, for at least 3 months. This web page is called "The Landing Page."

QUICK LINKS

Edward Rock

Edward Rock, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law in the Law School, is Senior Advisor to the President and Provost and Director of Open Learning Initiatives. In that role, he leads the University’s partnership with Coursera, and tries to figure out how MOOCs will change higher education.